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13 min read · enforce cluster standards before objects reach etcd
Bad manifests reach etcd when nothing sits in the admission path. Combine ValidatingAdmissionPolicy CEL, policy engines, and carefully operated mutating or validating webhooks—with Ignore-to-Fail rollout, namespace selectors, and cert-manager TLS—so defaults and denies land before persistence.
14 min read · isolate tenant workloads with layered quota and network controls
One batch job with unbounded requests can throttle latency-sensitive APIs across a shared cluster. Stack tiered namespaces, ResourceQuotas, LimitRanges, default-deny NetworkPolicy, and optional dedicated node pools into one isolation model with cost labels finance can reconcile.
14 min read · authenticate and authorize every pod connection by default
Default Kubernetes networking lets any pod reach any other pod. Combine default-deny NetworkPolicy, SPIRE-backed mutual authentication, and Cilium eBPF enforcement to segment east-west traffic and prove service identity—without a sidecar on every pod.
14 min read · enforce compliance rules on every Kubernetes API request
Wiki pages do not block a deployment. Policy as Code turns security and compliance rules into version-controlled admission checks that run on every create and update—before workloads reach production.
14 min read · secure the build pipeline from dependency to signed deploy
Production software is assembled from hundreds of dependencies, base images, and build tools. Without SBOMs, signatures, and admission policies, teams cannot prove what shipped or block tampered artifacts before they reach the cluster.
14 min read · Kubernetes security hardening for production clusters
Default clusters are easy targets for RBAC sprawl, open APIs, and plaintext etcd. This guide walks through control plane flags, Pod Security Standards, default-deny networking, node sysctl hardening, and Vault-style secrets—with a phased rollout plan.
